Trumbo

The “Hollywood 10” were writers, directors and actors who were deemed to be communists or communist-sympathisers in the mid to late 1940s. They were jailed for contempt of Congress, for refusing t... Read More

Deadpool

And now the one you’ve all been waiting for!! Ryan Reynolds rocks as the hideously disfigured, blood-lusting, hysterically funny, mercenary anti-hero, Deadpool, in the first r-rated Marvel Comics mo... Read More

How To Be Single

This is one of the loveliest “anti-romcoms” I have seen in a while. The script is a lot of fun, and rings true in so many ways. I laughed, I choked back a small tear, and I would encourage all the... Read More

A Perfect Day

Academy Award winners Benicio del Toro & Tim Robbins star in this “Day in the Life” story of a group of international aid workers in Serbia in the mid-nineties, trying to help the people, deal... Read More

Spotlight

This film is centered around the Spotlight team at the Boston Globe who broke the scandal in the Catholic Church where the higher-ups were covering up child molestation by their priests – the extent... Read More

The Dress Maker

Based on the novel by Rosalie Ham, “The Dressmaker” is the best Australian film I’ve seen in years! Set in a tiny town called Dungatar, Victoria, the film opens with a fabulously fashionable Kat... Read More

The Finest Hours

This film is based on true events, but it’s a fairly unimpressive story. Chris Pine plays Bernie Webber, a recently engaged sailor in the Coast Guard who is sent out in a raging storm to attempt to ... Read More

The Big Short

Based on real events surrounding the finance gurus who predicted the U.S. credit and housing bubble collapse and the inevitable economic chaos of the mid-2000’s, The Big Short tells the story of the... Read More

The Revenant

The title of this film comes from the French word, revenir (to return). Revenant basically means ‘one who returns after death, as a spirit or ghost.’ Set in the 1820’s, Leonardo di Caprio plays ... Read More

Suffragette

Set in 1912, “Suffragette” tells the story of the struggle of ordinary, working class women to obtain the vote at the turn of the 20th Century. Carey Mulligan is brilliant as Maud Watts, a laundre... Read More